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105-479: Named after Josiah Royce , a California-born philosopher who received his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in 1875, the building's exterior is composed of elements borrowed from numerous northern Italian sources. While very different in their composition and near-symmetry, the two towers of Royce make an abstract reference to those of the famous Abbey Church of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan. A building of very similar form on

210-530: A "Monster Concert", in which 12 Steinway pianos and 36 pianists were brought on stage for pieces by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and others; Alberto Ginastera 's Cantata para America Magica , an extraordinary work based on pre-Columbian Latin American songs and scored for soprano and 53 percussion instruments; and Christus Apollo , a cantata written by Jerry Goldsmith , based on a text by Ray Bradbury and narrated by Charlton Heston . In his teens Temianka played

315-516: A Laurentius Storioni of 1780. While traveling under the aegis of the Curtis Institute, he briefly played a loaned Stradivarius, which was exchanged for a Januarius Gagliano . In 1929 Temianka owned the violin made in 1752 by Joannes Baptista Guadagnini . In the 1930s he played a Silvestre violin, with which he made his early Vintage recordings, and subsequently a Januarius Gagliano and a Carlo Bergonzi . The Stradivarius he played during

420-860: A Michelangelo Bergonzi of 1759. His recordings of the Handel Sonatas were made on an Andrea Guarneri of 1687. In February 2013, Chapman University endowed the Henri Temianka Professorship in Music and Scholarship in String Studies. The violin played by Albert Saparoff, concertmaster of the Hollywood Symphony, was endowed as the Temianka-Saparoff violin, and is dedicated for the use of a selected recipient while studying there. A bust of Temianka

525-825: A brilliant New York City debut in 1928, described by Olin Downes in The New York Times as "one of the finest accomplishments in years," Temianka returned to Europe and rapidly established himself as one of the era's foremost concert violinists. He made extensive concert tours through almost every country in Europe and appeared with major orchestras both in Europe and the U.S. under conductors including Pierre Monteux (who gave him his first Paris appearance), Sir John Barbirolli , Sir Adrian Boult , Fritz Reiner , Sir Henry J. Wood , George Szell , Otto Klemperer , Dimitri Mitropoulos , and William Steinberg . In Leningrad he

630-786: A century later. Henri Temianka Henri Temianka (19 November 1906 – 7 November 1992) was a virtuoso violinist, conductor, author and music educator. Henri Temianka was born in Greenock , Scotland , to parents who were Polish emigrants. He studied violin with Carel Blitz in Rotterdam from 1915 to 1923, with Willy Hess at the National Conservatory in Berlin from 1923 to 1924, and with Jules Boucherit in Paris from 1924 to 1926. He then enrolled at

735-595: A chapter of his second book Chance Encounters (unpublished); that chapter has been integrated with illustrations of many of the relevant photographs, letters and other documents, and privately printed as a monograph. In 1945 he performed at Carnegie Hall with pianist Artur Balsam . In 1946 he performed all the Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Leonard Shure at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Over

840-500: A choice: to create, or not to create." "It's easy to avoid criticism -- just say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." "The happiest times have always been when we have chamber music at our house—veritable orgies of informal music-making, gastronomy, and story-swapping, with everybody in shirtsleeves. The warmth of musical and human empathy is unique. As we play, unrehearsed, a quartet of Beethoven or Mozart, there are extraordinary flashes of insight, thrilling moments of truth when we share

945-632: A concert he had given in Madrid in 1935 had been attended by a powerful Spanish aristocrat and president of the Bilbao Philharmonic Society, Ignacio de Gortazar y Manso de Velasco, the 19th Count of Superunda. The Count personally escorted Temianka's parents from jail to his mansion, and then arranged for their passage by ship to Cuba and the United States, where they became citizens. Temianka described these remarkable events in

1050-415: A concrete fact for an experience of a higher than human level”. ( The Philosophy of Loyalty , p. 311). This move illustrates what Royce calls his “absolute pragmatism”, the claim that ideals are thoroughly practical—the more inclusive being more practical. The concretization of ideals cannot therefore be empirically doubted except at the cost of rendering our conscious life inexplicable. If we admit that

1155-1033: A four-hour program of recordings by Temianka, the Paganini Quartet, and the California Chamber Symphony. Temianka in 1946 joined the Paganini Quartet , founded by the great Belgian cellist Robert Maas  [ fr ] . The quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), had once been owned by the Italian virtuoso violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840). The other original members were Gustave Rosseels, second violin, and Robert Courte, viola. Subsequent members included Charles Libove, Stefan Krayk and Harris Goldman, violin; Charles Foidart, David Schwartz and Albert Gillis, viola; and Adolphe Frezin and Lucien Laporte, cello. The quartet made its world debut at

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1260-405: A higher than human level. An analogous unity of consciousness, a unity superhuman in grade, but intimately bound up with, and inclusive of, our separate personalities, must exist, if loyalty is well founded, wherever a real cause wins the true devotion of ourselves. Grant such an hypothesis, and then loyalty becomes no pathetic serving of a myth. The good which our causes possesses, then, also becomes

1365-538: A kind of fiction. But ideas, considered dynamically, temporally instead of spatially, in light of what they do in the world of practice and qualities, do have temporal forms and are activities. The narrative presentation of ideas, such as belongs to the World of Appreciation, is “more easily effective than description...for space furnishes indeed the stage and the scenery of the universe, but the world’s play occurs in time”. ( WI2 , pp. 124–125). Time conceived abstractly in

1470-568: A kind of pernicious impersonalism, according to Howison. Royce never intended this result and responded to Howison's criticism first in a long supplementary essay to the debate (1897), and then by developing the philosophy of the individual person in greater detail in his Gifford Lectures , published under the title The World and the Individual (1899, 1901). Simultaneously Royce was enduring a resolute assault on his hypothetical absolutism from James. Royce later admitted that his engagement with

1575-555: A meeting the New York Times called “a battle of the giants”. There Royce offered a new modal version of his proof for the reality of God based upon ignorance rather than error, based upon the fragmentariness of individual existence rather than its epistemological uncertainty. However, Howison attacked Royce's doctrine for having left no ontological standing for the individual over against the Absolute, rendering Royce's idealism

1680-730: A much smaller scale was a centerpiece of the College of California campus in Oakland in 1860, the predecessor of the University of California. Severely damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake , Royce Hall underwent a $ 70.5 million seismic renovation. Designed by architects Barton Phelps & Associates and Anshen + Allen Los Angeles and completed in 1998, the project combined structural strengthening and functional improvements with extensive interior updating. The iconic towers were strengthened and restored on an emergency basis. The project for

1785-471: A new call for men to carry on the work of righteousness, of charity, of courage, of patience, and of loyalty. [...] I studied, I loved, I labored, unsparingly and hopefully, to be worthy of my generation." Royce, born on November 20, 1855, in Grass Valley , California , was the son of Josiah and Sarah Eleanor (Bayliss) Royce , whose families were recent English emigrants and who sought their fortune in

1890-499: A prominent spokesperson for the compatibility between evolution and religion. In a memorial published shortly after LeConte's death, Royce described the impact of LeConte's teaching on his own development, writing: "the wonder thus aroused was, for me, the beginning of philosophy" (p. 328). After studying in Germany with Hermann Lotze , he returned to the United States to finish his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University , where he

1995-802: A suite that the then-unknown Benjamin Britten had written for him and pianist Betty Humby, and performed music by Sergei Prokofiev , with the composer at the piano in Moscow; and Ralph Vaughan Williams conducted his violin concerto for him in London. In 1936 he founded the Temianka Chamber Orchestra in London. He was the concertmaster of the Scottish Orchestra from 1937 to 1938. He gave his first concert in Los Angeles,

2100-539: A totality of relations to other individuals and to the Whole that are theirs alone. In the Second Series of Gifford Lectures Royce temporalizes these relations, showing that we learn to think about ideas like succession and space by noting differences and directionality within unified and variable “timespans”, or qualitative, durational episodes of the “specious present”. Royce explains, “our temporal form of experience

2205-590: A violin recital, at the Wilshire Ebell in 1940. From 1941 to 1942 he was the concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner , performing as soloist in concertos including the Beethoven and Mozart A major . His appearances as violin soloist and guest conductor in Europe and both North and South America were interrupted by World War II, during which he became a senior editor in

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2310-868: A violist) and Camilla Wicks . Temianka was a visiting professor and guest lecturer at many universities in the United States and abroad, including the Universities of California, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, Toronto, Southern California and the Osaka Music Academy of Japan. He held professorships at University of California, Santa Barbara (1960–64) and Long Beach State College (now California State University, Long Beach) (1964–76). He also taught master classes at various universities including Brigham Young in Utah, and produced films in music education. He died, aged 85, in Los Angeles . "You have

2415-632: Is "the Interpreter Spirit", which is another name for the Absolute, but a philosophical understanding of such a being is not required for successful interpretation and ethical life. A benchmark in Royce's career and thought occurred when he returned to California to speak to the Philosophical Union at Berkeley, ostensibly to defend his concept of God from the criticisms of George Holmes Howison , Joseph Le Conte , and Sidney Mezes,

2520-406: Is a limitation of conceptual thought that obliges us to philosophize according to logic rather than integrating our psychological and appreciated experience into our philosophical doctrines. There is ample evidence for supposing a parallelism between our conceptual and perceptual experiences, and for using the former as a guide to the latter, according to Royce, particularly with regard to the way that

2625-430: Is a virtue ethic in which our loyalty to increasingly less immediate ideals becomes the formative moral influence in our personal development. As persons become increasingly able to form loyalties, the practical and ongoing devotion to a cause bigger than themselves, and as these loyalties become unifiable in the higher purposes of groups of persons over many generations, humanity is increasingly better able to recognize that

2730-454: Is called fallibilism by the philosophers of his generation, and Royce's embrace of it may be attributed to the influence of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James . Royce also defends a view that was later to be called personalism —i.e., “The ambiguous relation of the conscious individuals to the universal thought...will be decided in the sense of their inclusion, as elements in the universal thought. They will indeed not become 'things in

2835-505: Is designed to respond in unison with original masonry infill to provide maximum earthquake resistance and protect the building's historic fabric from damage. The sidewalls of the auditorium were reconfigured to hold foot-thick concrete shear panels the volume of which could have lessened its reverberant character. New wall openings, cut into abandoned rooftop areaways, are enclosed by new structure to form operable acoustic galleries allow variable acoustic responses. Along with new ceiling coves,

2940-483: Is impossible as Peirce arrived at Johns Hopkins in 1879. Royce influenced the Harvard school of logic, Boolean algebra , and foundations of mathematics . His own logic, philosophy of logic , and philosophy of mathematics were influenced by Charles Peirce and Alfred Kempe . Students who learned logic at Royce's feet include Clarence Irving Lewis , who went on to pioneer modal logic , Edward Vermilye Huntington ,

3045-470: Is the standard biography of Royce. Autobiographical remarks by Royce can be found in Oppenheim's study. In 1883 Royce was approached by a publishing company who asked him to write the state history of California, “In view of his precarious circumstances at Harvard and his desire to pursue the philosophical work for which he had come east, Royce found the prospect attractive […]. He wrote to a friend that he

3150-588: Is thus peculiarly the form of the Will as such”. ( The World and the Individual, Second Series , p. 124) Hence, for Royce, the will is the inner dynamism that reaches beyond itself into a possible future and acts upon an acknowledged past. Space and the abstract descriptions that are appropriate to it are a falsification of this dynamism, and metaphysical error, especially “realism”, proceeds from taking these abstractions literally. Philosophy itself proceeds along descriptive lines and therefore must offer its ontology as

3255-461: Is to be independent, which mysticism and critical rationalism advanced other criteria, that to be way to, immediacy in the case of mysticism and objective validity in critical rationalism. As hypotheses about the fundamental character of being, Royce shows each of these falls into contradiction. In contrast Royce offers as his hypothesis that “to be is to be uniquely related to a whole”. This formulation preserves all three crucial aspects of being, namely

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3360-561: The Budapest String Quartet , and the Los Angeles Philharmonic . In addition to its world-renowned acoustics, the monument is a must-see for anyone who visits UCLA, especially because of its asymmetrical features. In 1960, Henri Temianka founded and conducted his "Let's Talk Music" series at Royce Hall; this orchestra became the California Chamber Symphony (CCS), which gave more than 100 concerts over

3465-605: The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia , where he studied violin with Carl Flesch , who reported of him in 1927, "Was brought over by me. First class technical talent, somewhat sleepy personality, has still to awake." In 1928, Flesch said, "His violinistic personality is for the moment still above his human one. Life shall be his best teacher in this regard." Later he stated, "...he has made an intensive study of my method of teaching, of which I consider him

3570-466: The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. As an avid chamber music player, Temianka hosted frequent private musical evenings in his Los Angeles home, playing with fellow musicians including Yehudi Menuhin, Jascha Heifetz , Isaac Stern , Joseph Szigeti , David Oistrakh, Henryk Szeryng, Leonard Pennario, William Primrose , Gregor Piatigorsky and Jean-Pierre Rampal . Temianka was equally adept on

3675-457: The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Buenos Aires Philharmonic. In 2022 a graduating student from Chapman University, Mitchell Tanaka, placed Temianka's pioneering contributions in historical perspective in his production "Temianka Talks Music." [1] . Unique concerts given under the auspices of the CCS included the opera Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten , in which hundreds of children participated;

3780-558: The Lowell Institute , at Yale , Harvard, and at the University of Illinois in 1906–07. The basic ideas were explicit in his writings as early as his history of California . Here Royce set out one of the most original and important moral philosophies in the recent history of philosophy. His notion of “loyalty” was essentially a universalized and ecumenical interpretation of Christian agapic love. Broadly speaking, Royce's

3885-678: The Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor . His live performances of the Beethoven sonatas in 1946 with pianist Leonard Shure were restored by DOREMI and released by Allegro Music on CD's in 2011. With the Paganini Quartet, he recorded 11 of the Beethoven string quartets for RCA Victor. These were remastered and reissued on CD's in 2012 by United Archives. On other labels they recorded Joseph Haydn 's "Emperor" and Mozart's "Dissonant" quartets, and quartets by Britten, Debussy, Ravel, Schumann, Verdi, Ginastera, Lajhta, and Benjamin Lees;

3990-401: The westward movement of the American pioneers in 1849. In 1875 he received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (which moved from Oakland to Berkeley during his matriculation), where he later accepted an instructorship teaching English composition, literature, and rhetoric. While at the university, he studied with Joseph LeConte , Professor of Geology and Natural History and

4095-635: The 1930s, Salt Lake Tabernacle organist Alexander Schreiner gave public recitals three times a week on the instrument. The organ was later featured in several recording sessions of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta . It serves as one of the home venues for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra . Luminaries who have appeared on its stage include musicians George Gershwin , Leonard Bernstein , and Ella Fitzgerald , and speakers Albert Einstein and John F. Kennedy . In 2012,

4200-424: The 200,000 square foot building itself inserted a new, six-story structural system of concrete panels located in the auditorium walls and connected by concrete beams to the building's historic exterior brickwork. Eligibility for National Register listing prompted FEMA earthquake resistance requirements well beyond normal safety levels and triggered close design scrutiny by preservation officers. The new "soft" structure

4305-814: The Bach violin sonatas with Anthony Newman . He performed the Bach Double Violin Concerto with David Oistrakh , Yehudi Menuhin , Henryk Szeryng and Jack Benny . His chamber groups performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center and the Mark Taper Forum. In 1960 he was the music director at the esteemed Ojai Music Festival . In the 1980s his California Chamber Virtuosi gave concerts at Pepperdine University and at

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4410-703: The Beacon Arts Centre. The dedication was reported by the BBC, and honored by a Motion of the Scottish Parliament. An exhibit of Temianka's letters and memorabilia was open at Chapman's Leatherby Libraries until 30 July 2016. On 3 March 2017, the Henri Temianka Archives were dedicated in a multimedia room at Chapman. The Archives consist of some 2700 letters, photographs, concert programs and other effects from his life. In 2018

4515-403: The CCS under Temianka's direction included David Oistrakh , Christine Walevska , Jean-Pierre Rampal and Benny Goodman . Temianka broke tradition by speaking to his audiences from the stage about the music and composers. (For this reason the series was originally titled "Let's Talk Music".) He created a "Concerts for Youth" series and also brought music to hospitals, prisons, and schools for

4620-738: The Cleveland Quartet for almost 15 years, beginning in 1982, and are presently owned by Nippon Music Foundation of Japan, after deacquisition by the Corcoran Gallery in the mid-1990s for $ 15 million. They were then played for several years by the Hagen Quartet , and then by the Quartetto di Cremona ; they are now in the hands of the Kuss Quartet . When the years of the Paganini Quartet came to an end, Temianka played

4725-780: The Henri Temianka Audio Preservation Lab was endowed at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Henri Temianka's students included Leo Berlin (who became concertmaster of the Stockholm Philharmonic), Nina Bodnar (who won the 1982 Thibaud International Competition in Paris), Amalia Castillo, Alison Dalton (subsequently in the first violin section of the Chicago Symphony), Marilyn Doty, Eugene Fodor , Michael Mann, Dolores Miller, Phyllis Moad, Karen Tuttle (who later became

4830-502: The Holy Catholic Church and the communion of saints as a universal community. This community is a process of mutually interpretive activity which requires shared memory and hope. In seeking to show the reality of the invisible community, perhaps Royce was seeking communion with his departed son Christopher and his close friend William James, both of whom had died in 1910. Royce kept these and other personal tragedies far from

4935-722: The Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership at Royce Hall. Although not known for its acoustics prior to renovations in the 1980s, Royce Hall was the venue for a number of landmark recordings of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta. The recordings, made from 1967 through 1978 and recorded by the Decca label, were intended as hi-fi showpieces and contributed to the LA Phil's reputation for dazzle and glitz. Decca's engineers, initially under

5040-559: The Paganini and Budapest Quartets presented the world premiere of Darius Milhaud 's 14th and 15th string quartets, followed by the two groups' performance of both works simultaneously as an octet. In subsequent years they made joint appearances with Arthur Rubinstein , Andrés Segovia , Claudio Arrau and Gary Graffman . The quartet recorded eleven of the Beethoven quartets as well as those of Gabriel Fauré , Giuseppe Verdi , Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel and others. They also played

5145-730: The Royce Hall recordings under Mehta were showpieces of the 19th and 20th centuries, including noteworthy recordings of Stravinsky 's Petrushka (recorded in 1967) and The Rite of Spring (recorded in 1969), Tchaikovsky 's Symphony No. 4 (recorded twice, in 1967 and 1976), Copland 's Lincoln Portrait (recorded in 1968 with narrator Gregory Peck ), Strauss 's Also sprach Zarathustra (recorded in 1969) and An Alpine Symphony (recorded in 1976), Holst 's The Planets (recorded in 1971), Dvořák 's Symphony No. 8 and Symphony No. 9 (both recorded in 1975), and Mahler 's Symphony No. 3 (recorded 1978; Mehta's final recording with

5250-1088: The Schumann Piano Quintet and Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 with Arthur Rubinstein (reissued on BMG CD in 1999); and the Brahms Piano Quintet with Ralph Votapek. He also appeared as violin soloist in a 1941 recording of Richard Strauss 's Don Quixote by the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner, featuring cellist Gregor Piatigorsky . Conducting the Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble, he recorded Ginastera's Cantata para America Magica and Carlos Chavez's Toccata for Percussion Instruments for Columbia Records. Temianka wrote more than 100 articles for various periodicals, including Instrumentalist , The Strad , Reader's Digest , Saturday Review , Esquire , Hi-Fi Stereo Review , Musical America , Etude , and Holiday . About one-third of these essays concerned string playing and teaching and have recently been collated into

5355-673: The U.S. Office of War Information. Because of his fluency in four languages (English, French, German and Dutch), he translated and edited sensitive documents. Through a combination of his bureaucratic connections there and contacts from his international performing career, and with assistance from HIAS , he was able to secure the release of his parents from the Nazi concentration camp in Gurs, France, in 1941. However, upon arriving in Spain, they were thrown in jail by Franco's police. Temianka recalled that

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5460-417: The University of California at Berkeley. Critic Alfred Frankenstein wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle on November 11, 1946, "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone." On December 5, 1947, the Los Angeles Examiner reported, "Entrusted with fabulously sensitive string instruments that once were in the personal collection of Paganini, they achieve

5565-468: The Violin , Dominic Gill appraised Temianka's recording of the Schubert Rondo in A, D.438, as follows: "The divine playing of this work in 1937 by Henri Temianka stands out as a pinnacle among the great violin recordings of all time." All of these recordings were reissued on CD by Biddulph Recordings in 1992. In the LP era, he recorded sonatas by George Frideric Handel , Édouard Lalo , Vincent d'Indy , Paul Dukas , Edvard Grieg and Antonín Dvořák , and

5670-416: The Whole, the individual, and the relation that constitutes them. Where previously Royce's hypotheses about ontology had taken for granted that relations are discovered in the analysis of terms, here he moves to the recognition that terms are constituted by their relations, and insofar as terms are taken to refer to entities, as we must assume, we are obliged to think about individuals as uniquely constituted by

5775-408: The Will, in contrast to Schopenhauer's pessimistic treatment, it remained for Royce to rescue Pauline Christianity , in its universalized and modernized form, from the critique of Nietzsche and others who tended to understand will in terms of power and who had claimed that the historic doctrine was no longer believable to the modern mind. Striking in this work is the temporal account of the Holy Spirit,

5880-537: The World of Description, although it can never be wholly spatialized, provides us with an idea of eternity, while time lived and experienced grounds this description (and every other), historically, ethically, and aesthetically. Since philosophy proceeds descriptively rather than narratively, “the real world of our Idealism has to be viewed by us men as a temporal order”, in which “purposes are fulfilled, or where finite internal meanings reach their final expression and attain unity with external meanings”. Hence, for Royce, it

5985-407: The application and further illustration of the concepts he had defended since 1881. Some have seen here a fundamental shift in Royce's thinking but the evidence is far from conclusive. Royce's hypothetical ontology, temporalism, personalism, his social metaphysics based on the fourth conception of being remain, along with the operation of agapic loyalty, and the unity of finite purposes in the ideal of

6090-562: The audience. Presentation of the annual Los Angeles Times book prizes were made during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in association with UCLA in Royce Hall from 1996-2010. For many years, Royce Hall has been the venue of choice for various culture nights produced by cultural student organizations on campus, including Vietnamese Culture Night (VCN), Samahang Pilipino Cultural Night (SPCN), Chinese American Culture Night (CACN), and Korean Culture Night (KCN), among others. In 2014, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered

6195-469: The beloved community. There is no obvious shift in method and no overt move to abandon idealism. Royce himself declared the “successive expressions” of the philosophy of loyalty “form a consistent body of ethical as well as religious opinion and teaching, verifiable, in its main outlines, in terms of human experience, and capable of furnishing a foundation for a defensible form of metaphysical idealism”. ( The Problem of Christianity , Vol. 1, p. ix) Royce never

6300-432: The best exponent in England." In his memoirs he said, "...there was above all Henry [sic] Temianka, who did great credit to the Institute: both musically and technically, he possessed a model collection of talents." Temianka's playing was further influenced by Eugène Ysaÿe , Jacques Thibaud and Bronisław Huberman . He also studied conducting with Artur Rodziński at Curtis, and became its first graduate in 1930. After

6405-435: The building consists of two wings and a central part. The main part of the building also contains several technical levels above the third floor which contain theater equipment. In 1936, University of California President Robert Gordon Sproul appointed a committee to oversee programming and in 1937, Royce Hall's first performing arts season was born. The first subscription series included the great contralto Marian Anderson ,

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6510-405: The building. The uneven texture of projecting blocks improves sound diffusion. Its pattern is abstracted from Lombard Romanesque motifs in Lucca and other cities in the valley of the Po River in northern Italy. The hall, post renovation, covered 191,547 square feet (17,795.3 m). The hall contains a 6,600-pipe E.M. Skinner pipe organ , renovated and expanded in 1999 by Robert Turner. During

6615-465: The concretization of ideals genuinely occurs, Royce argues, then we are not only entitled but compelled to take seriously and regard as real the larger intelligible structures within which those ideals exist, which is the purposive character of the divine Will. The way in which persons sort out higher and lower causes is by examining whether one's service destroys the loyalty of others, or what is best in them. Ultimately personal character reaches its acme in

6720-468: The dream' of any other person than themselves, but their whole reality, just exactly as it is in them, will be found to be but a fragment of a higher reality. This reality will be no power, nor will it produce the individuals by dreaming of them, but it will complete the existence that in them, as separate beings, has no rational completeness”. ( RAP , pp. 380–381) This is an unavoidable hypothesis, Royce believed, and its moral and religious aspect point to

6825-401: The ensuing 23 years, including premieres of major works by such composers as Aaron Copland , Dmitri Shostakovich , Darius Milhaud , Alberto Ginastera , Gian Carlo Menotti and Malcolm Arnold . Soloists who performed with the CCS under Temianka's direction included David Oistrakh , Jean-Pierre Rampal and Benny Goodman . A "Concerts for Youth" series included participation by children from

6930-426: The existence of an Absolute. The “Absolute" Royce defended was quite different from the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and F. H. Bradley . Royce's Absolute is the ground and originator of community, a personal, temporal being who preserves the past in its entirety, sustains the full present by an act of interpretation, and anticipates every possibility in the future, infusing these possibilities with value as

7035-443: The first to axiomatize Boolean algebra, and Henry M. Sheffer , known for his eponymous stroke . Many of Royce's writings on logic and mathematics are critical of the extensional logic of Principia Mathematica , by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead , and can be read as an alternative to their approach. Many of his writings on logic and scientific method, are reproduced in Royce (1951, 1961). Royce's philosophy of man as

7140-405: The fulfillment of our finite purposes concretizes it for each and every individual. Each of us, no matter how morally undeveloped we may be, has fulfilled experiences that point to the reality of experience beyond what is given to us personally. This wider reality is exemplified most commonly by when we fall in love. The “spiritual union [of the lovers] also has a personal, a conscious existence, upon

7245-407: The galleries increase the volume of the hall by 40,000 cubic feet and lengthen its reverberation period by over a second at their maximum setting. Skylights in the gallery restore natural light to the spectacular coffered ceiling, now for the first time, brightly illuminated. Unlike the former plaster interior, the new walls are clad in brick and terra cotta identical to that on the original exterior of

7350-429: The greater Whole to which our experiences belong. We cannot help supposing that there is some experiencer within whose inner life the Whole exists, but only the inevitability of the assumption and not any experiential content assures us of the reality of such an experiencer. This social metaphysics lays the groundwork for Royce's philosophy of loyalty. The book of this title published in 1908 derived from lectures given at

7455-437: The hall installed a new $ 128,000 Steinway concert grand piano. Nicknamed "Sapphire" by the staff, the piano has already been used as the centerpiece of a $ 25,000-per-plate fundraising dinner to support emerging artists. Royce hall is a large seven-story brick building, excluding the basement and sub basement. Only the basement and the first three floors are open to the public, the large towers have seven floors. The main facade of

7560-444: The hall on September 19, 1975, although the album itself was not released until 1979. Portions of Earth, Wind & Fire 's album Faces (1980) were recorded at the hall. Tori Amos recorded a live album, performed as part of her Original Sinsuality Tour and released as part of the set The Original Bootlegs (2005), at Royce Hall. Josiah Royce Josiah Royce ( / r ɔɪ s / ; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916)

7665-429: The handicapped. He recognized and was in many instances responsible for the first appearances of a number of rising musicians, including Christopher Parkening , Jeffrey Kahane, Nathaniel Rosen , Paul Shenley, Timothy Landauer, Daniel Heifetz , and Los Romeros , a family of guitarists from Spain. He also made a number of major television appearances with the CCS, and appeared as conductor with other orchestras including

7770-413: The highest ideal is the creation of a perfected “beloved community” in which each and every person shares. The beloved community as an ideal experienced in our acts of loyal service integrates into Royce's moral philosophy a Kingdom of Ends, but construed as immanent and operative instead of transcendental and regulative. While the philosophical status of this ideal remains hypothetical, the living of it in

7875-410: The ideal of community. The principal difference between Royce's Absolute and the similar idea held by other thinkers is its temporal and personal character, and its interpretive activity. This divine activity Royce increasingly came to see in terms of the notion suggested by Charles Sanders Peirce of “ agapism ”, or “evolutionary love”. Royce believed that human beings do have experience of the Absolute in

7980-413: The idealization of our inner purposes enables us to connect them with the purposes of others in a larger whole of which we have no immediate experience. We can appreciate the sense of fulfillment we find in serving a larger whole and form our characters progressively upon the ways in which those experiences of fulfillment point us outwards, beyond the finite self, but we are not so constitute as to experience

8085-453: The incredible - as will be eagerly testified by the packed house..." During its 20-year international career, the Paganini Quartet concertized continuously in large cities and small towns throughout the United States, as well as in famous concert halls around the world. In 1946-47 they played all the Beethoven string quartets in concert at the Library of Congress . At Mills College in 1949,

8190-430: The irrevocability of each and every deed we do. To confront the way that our acts cannot be undone is to meet the Absolute in its temporal necessity. The philosophical idea of the Absolute is an inevitable hypothesis for a coherent system of thought, Royce argued, but for practical purposes and a meaningful ethical life, all human beings need is an ongoing "will to interpret". The temporal ground of all acts of interpretation

8295-440: The label of pragmatist for himself), to the extent that it embraced practical life as the guide and determiner of the value of philosophical ideas. Royce accepted the fact that he had not and could not offer a complete or satisfactory account of the "relation of the individual minds to the all-embracing mind” (see RAP , p. 371), but he pushes ahead in spite of this difficulty to offer the best account he can manage. This stance

8400-420: The necessity of objective reference of our ideas to a universal whole within which they belong, for without these postulates, "both practical life and the commonest results of theory, from the simplest impressions to the most valuable beliefs, would be for most if not all of us utterly impossible". The justification for idealistic postulates is practical (a point Royce made repeatedly in his maturity, accepting

8505-516: The next 45 years he made appearances in more than 3,000 concerts in 30 countries, with some 500 concerts in the Los Angeles metropolitan area alone, appearing as violin soloist, conductor of the California Chamber Symphony , first violinist of the Paganini Quartet , and in remarkable chamber music recitals such as the Beethoven sonata cycles with pianists Lili Kraus , Leonard Pennario , Rudolf Firkušný and George Szell , and

8610-893: The orchestra as music director). Although initially dismissed by classical music sophisticates, including contemporary reviewers in the Los Angeles Times , the Royce Hall recordings have subsequently become regarded as classics, with particular acclaim focusing on the later recordings. Subsequent to Mehta's tenure, the Philharmonic would return to Royce Hall for recordings with other labels, including Prokofiev 's Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 5 (recorded in 1986; conducted by André Previn and released by Philips Classics ), and Stravinsky's Violin Concerto (recorded in 1992; conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and released by Sony Classical ). Royce Hall has occasionally been used for

8715-423: The philosophical world. The former of these contained a new proof for the existence of God based upon the reality of error. All errors are judged to be erroneous in comparison to some total truth, Royce argued, and we must either hold ourselves infallible or accept that even our errors are evidence of a world of truth. Having made it clear that idealism depends upon postulates and proceeds hypothetically, Royce defends

8820-462: The philosophy of Bradley may have led to a more robust engagement with the Absolute than was warranted, and it might be added that his persistent reading of Spinoza might have had similar effects. The First Series of Gifford Lectures made the case against three historical conceptions of being, called “ realism ”, “ mysticism ”, and “ critical rationalism ”, by Royce, and defended a “Fourth Conception of Being”. Realism, according to Royce, held that to be

8925-501: The product of the interrelationship of individual ego and social other laid the foundations for the writings of George Herbert Mead . Royce saw the self as the product of a process of social interaction. Royce wrote: "In origin, then, the empirical Ego is secondary to our social experiences. In literal social life, the Ego is always known in contrast to the Alter". He also considered that

9030-463: The recognition that service of lost causes, through which we may learn that our ultimate loyalty is to loyalty itself. Some recent scholarship on Royce has framed his philosophy of loyalty as being based on racist theories of assimilation and conquest. Tommy J. Curry argues that previous generations of Royce scholars have ignored the historical context and primary texts Josiah Royce used to develop his theories of racial contact. Curry writes that Royce

9135-647: The recording of film scores. Portions of John Williams ' scores for A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) were recorded at the hall. Maurice Jarre recorded his score for the Japanese film The Setting Sun (1992) at the venue. Starting in the 1960s and continuing to the present day, Royce Hall has also been utilized for the recording of contemporary popular music, specifically for live concert recordings. Ravi Shankar 's early live album India's Most Distinguished Musician in Concert

9240-702: The same concept of an exquisite phrase, sculpt the same melodic line, linger and savor the same ritardando or diminuendo. In those moments we spontaneously look up from our music, exchanging ecstatic smiles and glances. It is a level of spiritual communication granted few human beings."—from Facing the Music . In the 1930s Temianka made solo recordings, mostly on the Parlophone label, of works by Henryk Wieniawski , Gaetano Pugnani , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Johann Sebastian Bach , Karol Szymanowski , Pablo de Sarasate , Camille Saint-Saëns , Anton Arensky , Jean Sibelius and Frank Bridge . In The Book of

9345-405: The social self could itself become diseased, seeing delusions of grandeur or persecution as distortions of everyday self-consciousness, with its concern for social standing and reflected place in the world. Erving Goffman considered that his pioneering work of 1895 on the distortions in the subjective sense of self which take place in the grandiosity of mania was unsurpassed three quarters of

9450-413: The supervision of John Culshaw , utilized two and a half tons of recording equipment in their efforts. To counter Royce Hall's disadvantageous acoustic profile, the engineers had a temporary stage platform constructed, which extended onto the floor of the hall to move the orchestra forward and to the center of the room; the platform was removed between recordings and reassembled as needed. The focal point of

9555-543: The text of his published work, but the grieving certainly affected and deepened his insight and perhaps exaggerated the quality of his hope. Two key influences on the thought of Royce were Charles Sanders Peirce and William James. In fact, it can be argued that a major way Peirce's ideas entered the American academy is through Royce's teaching and writing, and eventually that of his students. Peirce also reviewed Royce's The Religious Aspect of Philosophy (1885). Some have claimed that Peirce also supervised Royce's Ph.D., but that

9660-574: The viola as the violin, and sometimes played it during these evenings, as well as in concert in 1962 with Isaac Stern in a performance of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante (which he also performed on violin with William Primrose on viola). In 1980 the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians said of Temianka that he was "...known for his flawless mastery of his instrument, a pure and expressive tone, and forceful yet elegant interpretations." On July 28, 2016, Jim Svejda at Classical KUSC-FM radio aired

9765-522: The world premieres of works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Benjamin Lees . In 1960 Temianka founded and conducted a chamber orchestra based at Royce Hall, UCLA, the California Chamber Symphony . The orchestra gave more than 100 concerts over the ensuing 23 years, including premieres of major works by such major composers as Aaron Copland , Dmitri Shostakovich , Darius Milhaud , Alberto Ginastera , William Schuman , Gian Carlo Menotti , Malcolm Arnold and Carlos Chávez . Soloists who performed with

9870-734: The years of the Paganini Quartet was the "Conte Cozio di Salabue" of 1727, which was Paganini's own concert violin. It was later played by Martin Beaver, first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet , which played since 1995 on the same quartet of Stradivarius instruments once owned by Paganini, until the Tokyo String Quartet retired in July 2013. These remarkable instruments—the viola had inspired Paganini to commission Hector Berlioz 's Harold en Italie —were also played by

9975-638: Was Royce's friend and philosophical antagonist. Royce's position at Harvard was made permanent in 1884, and he remained there until his death on September 14, 1916. Royce was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the United States National Academy of Sciences , and the American Philosophical Society . Royce stands out starkly in the philosophical crowd because he

10080-629: Was an American Pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism . His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism. Royce's "A Word for the Times" (1914) was quoted in the 1936 State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt : "The human race now passes through one of its great crises. New ideas, new issues –

10185-399: Was an old-style absolutist in either method or ontology but there were those among his peers who only came to recognize this in his later thought. Some of these believed he had changed his view in some fundamental way. Royce's ethics and religious philosophy certainly matured, but the basic philosophical framework did not shift. Having provided throughout his career an idealistic way of grasping

10290-411: Was awarded one of the institution's first four doctorates, in philosophy in 1878. At Johns Hopkins he taught a course on the history of German thought, which was “one of his chief interests” because he was able to give consideration to the philosophy of history. After four years at the University of California, Berkeley, he went to Harvard in 1882 as a sabbatical replacement for William James , who

10395-418: Was characterized by wide-ranging interests, during which he wrote a novel, investigated paranormal phenomena (as a skeptic), and published a significant body of literary criticism. Only as historian and philosopher did he distinguish himself. Royce spread himself too thin, however, and in 1888 suffered a nervous breakdown which required him to take a leave of absence from his duties. John Clendenning's 1999 book

10500-737: Was created by the famous sculptor Miriam Baker, and stands on the Aitken Arts Plaza in front of the Musco Performing Arts Center, between busts of Mozart and Puccini, at Chapman University; a second bust from the same mold was dedicated at the McLean Museum and Art Gallery (now the Watt Institution) in Greenock, Scotland, his birthplace. During the museum's renovation, the statue was relocated at

10605-572: Was engaged for a single performance, but his virtuosity was so impressive that he was retained for five performances with five complete programs within a week. In 1935 he won third prize in the first Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Warsaw, Poland; Ginette Neveu took first prize, and David Oistrakh second. (A short documentary about that historic event can be found at http://www.wieniawski.com/1ivc.html .) In that year he also premiered

10710-586: Was recorded at the venue on November 19, 1961. Jazz bassist Charles Mingus recorded his live album Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965) at UCLA after his planned session at the Monterey Jazz Festival that year was cut short. Neil Young 's song " The Needle and the Damage Done ", featured on the album Harvest , was recorded during a live performance on January 30, 1971. Frank Zappa recorded his live album Orchestral Favorites at

10815-607: Was the only major American philosopher who spent a significant period of his life studying and writing history, specifically of the American West. “As one of the four giants in American philosophy of his time […] Royce overshadowed himself as historian, in both reputation and output” (Pomeroy, 2). During his first three years at Harvard, Royce taught many different subjects such as English composition, forensics, psychology and philosophy for other professors. Although he eventually settled into writing philosophy, his early adulthood

10920-581: Was widely read as both an imperialist and an anti-Black racist by his contemporaries. Other American philosophers such as John Moffatt Mecklin, a pragmatist and a segregationist, openly challenged Josiah Royce's views of race and the Negro. Mecklin insisted that Royce's theories suggested that while white Anglos had a racial gift and duty to lead the world towards the ideal, the Negro had no special gift and as such could have their racial traits destroyed through assimilation. The final phase of Royce's thought involved

11025-572: Was ‘tempted by the money’”. Royce viewed the task as a side project, which he could use to fill his free time. In 1891 his historical writing career came to an end, but not before he had published several reviews of California’s historical volumes, and articles in journals to supplement his history. The years between 1882 and 1895 established Royce as one of the most eminent American philosophers. His publication in 1885 of The Religious Aspect of Philosophy , and in 1892 of The Spirit of Modern Philosophy , both based on Harvard lectures, secured his place in

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